Word: twitching
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...sleek, young officer, at times almost handsome. His expression comes alive with a kind of haunted fury. His black eyes widen. His neck stretches. His head begins to twitch in spasmodic jerks. He looks like a hunted animal. It is a spasm. As it passes, he leans back against the dock and only the wariness in his eyes remains...
...through the Giannini empire for the past 25 years, is a man after old A. P.'s heart. He went to work after two years of high school, hates "golfing bankers." When someone asks him how much bigger the Bank of America can become, his uneven beetle brows twitch and he snaps back "How high...
...this bit of shoptalk between a Fort Bliss cavalryman and his commanding officer made any listener's stomach twitch last week, that was exactly what the U.S. Army wanted...
Some of George Patton's antics caused stiff eyebrows to twitch at headquarters. His profanity became legendary. With his flair for the spectacular, he designed, had tailored and posed in a special tank uniform : green with white buttons and black stripes. His own helmet was golden with two silver stars. (The Army declined to accept it as regulation.) With his flair for vivid phraseology, he wrote some war poetry (unpublished). With a tidy, inherited fortune he indulged his love for horses, polo, sailing boats and games...
Axis air strength grew too. Estimates, probably exaggerated, were that one-fifth of Germany's Luftwaffe was concentrated in the area, almost the entire Italian air force. German veterans from France and Russia appeared. P-38 pilots developed a "Messerschmitt twitch," a nervous glance back over the shoulder. Axis anti-aircraft fire intensified, caught many an unlucky medium bomber before the high command realized that these planes were better suited to sweeps against shipping...